Last month De Bethune announced the latest variant to the DB27 Titan Hawk with – you guessed it – a green dial. IN this case, a quite deep shade almost tending towards the ‘British racing green’ tone. For those unfamiliar… Read More ›
Amongst the many ways to present a new Greubel Forsey, sky diving doesn’t tend to come to mind as one of the top three possibilities. Nor even the top ten. To my mind, anyway. This is how it was unveiled… Read More ›
Chopard’s Karl Friedrich Scheufele, the man behind the revival of Ferdinand Berthoud’s name into a fully-fledged brand, fielded a lot of questions during the Watches & Wonders 2021 online presentation/ Q&A. For me, the most interesting nugget of information was… Read More ›
We are almost twelve months into it but no you can’t yet escape the green theme. We’ve covered some multi-coloured releases recently, but I still think that it will run until the end of 2021. Meet the new TAG Heuer… Read More ›
One of the interesting things to have come out of the digital Watches & Wonders 2021 for me was the press Q&A session by Purnell. Although I knew of them, my knowledge was sparse and didn’t go much beyond that,… Read More ›
Although the year is not yet half over, and Jaeger-LeCoultre will no doubt release more Reverso models to mark its 90th year, I feel fairly certain that the Reverso Tribute Nonantième will be my favourite of the celebratory year’s releases…. Read More ›
Today is about another new release along the ‘colour theme’ of recent posts but again, an example of how ‘being colourful’ is manifesting itself quite differently between brands. Rather than go the ‘single colour’ route, not unsurprisingly, Franck Muller have… Read More ›
At Watches & Wonders 2021 Carl F. Bucherer premiered the Manero Minute Repeater Symphony, the horological centrepiece of their relationship with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Alongside this partnership, Swedish composer Lisa Streich wrote a piece entitled “PERIPHERY”, commissioned by the… Read More ›
Watches, like other inanimate objects, are inherently neutral. Sizing, decoration – these are all a product of socio-cultural and historical influences, and preferences similarly the subjective mix of time, place, and individual. It’s why there are trends, why which watches… Read More ›
At the beginning of this month we wrote about the new limited edition1858 Split Second Chronograph Limited Edition 18 in “Lime Gold” from Montblanc. It turns out that this was not to be the only new chronograph they would announce… Read More ›
